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10th, September 2012 Music

The best, worst and most confusing costumes of Bestival 2012 (photos)

One problem with his show is that many of the crew don't know what the acts look like. You dress like a furry and the next minute you're on the main stage playing your maracas... More »

10th, September 2012 Reviews

In Photos: North Korea National Day 2012

BRing your coloured cards and party like it's 1975... More »

10th, September 2012 Money

The unfairness of life as a freelancer - a video

How unfair is it being a freelancer? Very... More »

10th, September 2012 Fashion

Barbara Hulanicki - 'Fashion today is so boring'

REady for the Barbara Hulanicki/Biba Brighton exhibition later this month, here's an excellent documentary... More »

10th, September 2012 Royal Family

Royal Blush: Prince Harry is the arse of naked wine

ToShipston in the Cotwolds, where Sheldon’s Wine Cellars is flogging Royal Blush, a line of booze featuting Dan Lacey's portrait of naked Prince Harry screwing back on the Las Vegas baize... More »

10th, September 2012 Celebrities 1

Rihanna's breasts are ready for take off

Rihanna has remembered her grandma who passed away by inking her underboobage with a likeness of the Goddess Isis... More »

10th, September 2012 Celebrities

The Church of Scientology's rambling paranoid letter to Vanity Fair: the 'herculean' David Miscavige

Jeffrey K. Riffer, of the law firm Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP, writes a response to Vanity Fair's look at Tom Cruise and David Miscavige... More »

10th, September 2012 Reviews

Dead immigrant rains from plane on Mortlake's Portman Avenue - maybe

Over in west London, eyes are aimed downwards to the body lying on Portman Avenue. More »

10th, September 2012 In Pictures

Dogs being dicks - the best gifs

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10th, September 2012 Reviews 1

Video: attempted armed robbery in Atherton: spot the police

You call the police. And you wait... More »

10th, September 2012 Celebrities

Photos of JK Rowling's Harry Potter treehouse

JK Rowling can build her massive Harry Potter treehouse, the one that looks like Hogwarts... More »

10th, September 2012 Sports

Harry Redknapp make Bournemouth FC still more interesting

Club chairman Eddie Mitchell (yep, him) has added Harry Redknapp to his kitchen (fitters ) cabinet... More »

10th, September 2012 Key Posts

In praise of Duane Bryers's Hilda

Hilda. Before the BBW, there was always Hilda... More »

10th, September 2012 Flashback

Planet Of The Knobheads: the robot always gets the girl

FLASHBACK to 1939: all the cool kids re reading Planet Of The Knobheads... More »

10th, September 2012 Celebrities 6

Crap celebrity merchandise: the Jedward 'popping' bar

"Louis Walsh sits in a little nest and lays several of these every hour"... More »

10th, September 2012 In Pictures

Mines create scars on planet Earth (photos)

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10th, September 2012 TV & Radio

Pluck the monkey-fightin' censorship! movie swearing dubbed for TV

When the swear words are dubbed for TV things can get ridiculous... More »

10th, September 2012 TV & Radio

Daggering in Jamaica: Split Your Jeans, But Don't Break Your Dick

Oh, and bring a ladder... More »

10th, September 2012 Politicians

Mitt Romney Q and A on marijuana and gays (videos)

Say what you will about Mitt Romney. He does, however, answer a question... More »

10th, September 2012 Flashback 1

1889: The Oklahoma Land Rush

Settlers race across the border into Indian Territory as a signal opens the area to white settlement in Oklahoma City on April 22, 1889... More »

10th, September 2012 Sports

London 2012 Paralympics in photos and Coldplay muzak

The London 2012 Games closing ceremony was a joy. Good and game of Coldplay to perform the muzak, selflessly allowing everyone else to enjoy the show... More »

10th, September 2012 In Pictures

Bad jobs someone has to do

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10th, September 2012 Sports

Could London 2012 live up to Simon Barnes' Olympics hype?

"It was the finest celebration of humanity in a quarter of a million years of our existence..." More »

10th, September 2012 Madeleine McCann

Annecy Lake Murders: Madeleine McCann, Laurent Fillion-Robin and ideas

The murders of four people in the French Alps have been knocked off the front pages by the London 2012 Paralympics closing ceremony. Feel good beats a murder mystery. But there are reports... More »

10th, September 2012 In Pictures 2

Cats being dicks - the best gifs

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